• Canadian filmmaker Paul Haggis is an Emmy and Academy Award winner for multiple hit television shows and films. Haggis attended school in London before moving to Los Angeles in 1975, to pursue a television and film writing career. According to Haggis' father, it was "three years, two months and 10 days" before his son sold his first TV script.

• 1. Birth date: March 10, 1953BBC News: Paul Haggis Interview
  2. Created the television series' Walker, Texas Ranger, Due South, Family Law and EZ Streets.
  3. Academy Awards: Nominated for Best Screenplay for Million Dollar Baby and Letters from Iwo Jima. Won Best Screenplay and Best Picture for Crash
  4. Wrote and directed the James Bond series blockbuster hit Casino Royale
  5. Residence: Santa Monica, California

• Career

  As a television writer/producer Haggis co-created the series Walker, Texas Ranger, Due South, Family Law and EZ Streets. In 1989, he received two Emmy awards for his work on the show Thirtysomething. He returned to television in the spring of 2007, after NBC picked up a 13-episode order for his crime drama, The Black Donnellys.

  In the early 2000s Haggis came into his own as both a writer and director in film. As a screenwriter, he received an Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay for Million Dollar Baby, directed by Clint Eastwood.

  His second directorial effort, Crash, which he co-wrote and co-produced, earned six Oscar nominations in 2005, including "Best Picture", "Best Director" and "Best Original Screenplay" categories. The film won the Academy Award for "Best Original Screenplay" for "Best Picture", making Haggis the only person in history to have penned two consecutive "Best Picture" Oscar winners.

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